21st Century Travel Content Performs Beautifully in Print
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There’s no question that technology has dramatically changed the travel industry. It wasn’t all that long ago that you’d call a travel agent when it was time to book a vacation, and they’d send you off with loads of travel...
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Media Buyers are Failing Brands Due to This One Bias
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The last few weeks we’ve talked a lot about the importance of true engagement in advertising, and how the quest for eyeballs has been distracting many brands from the real point of their campaigns. Now, new research from Ebiquity and...
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The Surprising Stats Behind the Decline in Print Ads this Year
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Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni has a way of getting down to the root of things; it’s one of the reasons we are such big fans of Husni’s blog here at Freeport Press. As an example, he recently took 16 of...
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Bold Meets Quirky in This Week’s Free Fonts
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This week we bring you two distinct fonts, each beautifully adapted to a specific purpose.First up is Chivo by designer Hecto Gatti of Omnibus-Type in Buenos Aires. A grotesque-style typeface with four different weights, it’s ideal when you want one...
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Let’s Give GQ a Hand for this One
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Seriously, this is the best thing I’ve seen all month. The new GQ cover features three A-list female comics in various states of ...  disarray. “To front its comedy-themed issue, the men's monthly lured Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae and Sarah...
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Facebook Bans 500 Million New Accounts for Fraud
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More than 500 million new Facebook accounts were flagged as fraud and deleted in the first three months of 2018, according to Alfred Ng in C|Net, who explains that these accounts were blocked within minutes of being registered. “That's an...
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How Consumers View Advertising – The 2017 Survey
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Ten thousand. That’s the estimated number of ads that the average consumer sees every day. And it’s not slowing down, as new channels and new technology means the volume of advertising is going nowhere but up. With all that noise,...
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Eyeballs are Not What You’re Looking For
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Unlike in the digital ad arena, magazines are not selling eyeballs to their ad partners. For the past several years, this was viewed as a “problem,” as media brands pumped massive resources into their digital content work to gain traction...
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The Designer’s Guide to Navigating those Reality Checks
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An art director offers his advice for dealing with the inevitable speed bumps on the journey from design idea to printed reality. We’ve all been there. We have a fantastic, knock-it-out-of-the-park, show-stopping, idea for the client’s next project, and they...
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A Free Font for Modern Professional Branding
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Too stuffy. Too casual. Too … meh.   Anyone who’s created business cards, resumes or personal branding campaigns knows the challenge of finding the right typeface. We might have an answer for you. This week we bring you Atzur by...
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